I'm with you on that one. So many have worked hard for what rights we had. I don't know if it is possible for me to get over the anger and disappointment. I will be 78 by that time and I think it is time to jump ship and move to a country that respects their people...ALL their people!
As of now US bases, embassies, planes, ships, people are all less safe because we are going to totally lose the chain of command with intelligence, let alone access to intel from our allies. Stein said the day before that MI6 is thinking of not sharing intel. I am sure the EU is discussing that too.
Musk told the EU that if they ban X, the US will pull out of NATO. Well, Trump is going to play the NATO card, and he may move troops, or bring them back home, but he is not developing trade partners this way. China and India are going to benefit from this, as well as African and other Asian countries. Everyone is preparing for his tariffs too. Here is an article discussing Trump's international policy.
I know from reading Project 2025, that nothing I am reading about appointments is surprising. And, knowing from people like Prof. Timothy Snyder that Trump and Musk are Russian assets and in cahoots with Putin, it is clear to me that he wants to hand the US to Putin and Xi on a silver platter. The whole world got less safe.
I am living in Europe. My American friends and I are wondering how we can access media we are used to using if the platforms like Substack get shut down. Is there a non-US based platform that the people we follow will be able to write on? Also, most of my friends here in Germany have VPNs, and I am getting one too. Most of my friends use Signal and not What's App, or have both. That is what my family uses too, but still, we know that many of the founders of Signal were initial on WhatsApp (others were from Yahoo). So even though it is freeware, they sold it to Meta. They profited from the sale. The Signal guys also helped Meta create the same encryption on their platform, so the encryption is pretty much the same. Signal is also based in the US. There is a mutualistic relationship between the two companies. A friends says she thinks Signal is marginally better, but not much.
My friend here is also talking about trying out Threema. It’s a Swiss company. It’s a paid app. It’s $5.99. I like a paid app model. I am worried that Musk will get rid of competition for his platform, and he now owns Trump. It was used to spread a lot of disinformation. Here is Prof. Snyder talking about that too. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign
Robert Hubbell also talked about how as the votes continue to be counted Trump now has less than 50% of the votes cast. Which given that 93 million eligible voters did not vote in this past election is less than a third of the eligible voters.
I wouldn't share intel with us either if I was from any of those allied nations that are looking warily at this once inspiring nation that had so much promise and influence on the world stage. If the American century wasn't already over then it most certainly will be soon after January 20, 2025...
Agreed! In fact, the smart ones will be snapping up our Intel people. Next we will see what happens with the DOD. DT cannot take over and destroy the Constitution with the White Supremacist militias alone. I am waiting to see what happens with the military leadership because they also have their own intelligence department which is discussed as the one to lean on in Project 2025. If they resign that is it.
Which is why I have called for a military coup before it’s too late. I would take my chances with the good generals and staff before the good ones go and the bad ones rule. Most likely, it’s all too late.
I am not saying coup. I am saying that if they refuse to enforce what Trump is doing as it violates the constitution then we will see that they serve the constitution and not the man.
When the Intel Chiefs Resign, this is Bad... When informed Concerned Citizens have to Hide, that is Bad... DJT, and his Minions Flood the Zone with Bull*....
I am not on X or Facebook or any of those so I won't be going to Blue Sky, but a friend of mine got convinced to leave X to go to Blue Sky. However, Blue Sky's days could be numbered. It is a US based platform, and if Musk decides he does not like the Competition he can shut it down directly through Brendan Carr of FCC infamy, or if Trump gets the Republicans to pass HR 9495 they he can claim it is just a social danger picking apart some items and then it is gone. Read what Carr has to say about what social platforms have to be. https://newrepublic.com/post/188529/donald-trump-war-press-fcc-project-2025
Any US based platform is currently at risk. People should spend some energy looking for other sources, or creating them and basing them elsewhere.
Blue Sky is my first social media site. Preemptively not joining because it might be shut down is guaranteed to be a losing strategy by surrendering before attacked. What is needed is site that has enough followers to be effective. Obscure foreign sites will not be. If Blue Sky is shut down (unlikely, look at how difficult it has been to shut down Tik Tok), it can easily then just move its site overseas.
Right now my friends here and I are planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Here is what the Guardian says today about Brenden Carr, Trump's new FCC appointment. "Late Sunday, Trump announced he would nominate Brendan Carr as head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The conservative commissioner wrote a chapter on the furture of the FCC for Project 2025 (the infamous hard-right playbook for the second Trump administration), the only sitting government official to do so. Carr’s views on the US tech sector have mostly aligned with those of Trump and Musk. In recent months, they have all lambasted broadcast TV networks and public broadcasters.
Carr has advocated for going after Meta and Google, not to hem in monopolistic practices but to dismantle the “censorship cartel” of big tech companies that he believes are stifling conservative speech. Google, already reeling from the loss in its antitrust case against the US, may be a big loser in the incoming administration, as Trump has railed against it in campaign speeches. Carr has also supported banning TikTok over alleged national security threats.
Carr’s agency could be a political cudgel for Trump in his personal retribution against tech companies. The commissioner is a friend of the telecommunications industry and an enemy of Silicon Valley’s tech giants. Will he apply a hands-off approach to internet service providers, dismantling consumer protections in a boon to the industry’s large incumbents, and then apply scrutiny and harsh authority to the likes of Google and Facebook, sacrificing consistency in favor of political expediency?
“Brendan Carr has been campaigning for this job with promises to do the bidding of Donald Trump and Elon Musk,” said Craig Aaron, co-CEO of Free Press Action, a left-leaning media advocacy organization. “Carr doesn’t care about protecting the public interest; he got this job because he will carry out Trump and Musk’s personal vendettas.”
Carr could also turn the FCC into a commercial bludgeon for the “First Buddy”, as Musk has christened himself, against the billionaire’s tech rivals. A major beneficiary of the commissioner’s ascendance is likely to be Musk’s SpaceX, whose satellites and the internet service they provide are under the FCC’s purview. In his Project 2025 proposals for the FCC, Carr emphasizes his priority to “advance America’s space leadership”. He namechecks Starlink (SpaceX’s satellite internet firm) and says his agency will adopt as friendly a regulatory stance towards the company’s launch schedule as possible.
Lock up your phones
Yondr’s phone pouch
When everyone is digging for gold, sell shovels. That’s what a company called Yondr has found. As schools across the globe are implementing phone-free days and governments are discussing whether children should be banned from social media entirely, this brand has found a market opportunity. Founded in 2013, Yondr was one of the first companies to manufacture lockable phone pouches in which students (and others) can quarantine their devices. One million students use a Yondr pouch daily across 35 countries, CEO Graham Dugoni told the Guardian.
Dugoni said that when a principal, school district or state implements a phone-free policy, his company sees a spike in business. He was hesitant, however, to use the word “ban” when referring to schools’ policies towards phone usage. “No one’s doing anything wrong. And we’re not anti-tech as a company … It’s more how do we live with these tools in the future in a constructive way.”
Dugoni wants people to live in harmony with smartphones rather than prohibiting them, though he uses a flip phone and doesn’t maintain any social media profiles for himself or his company. “Creating a phone-free space is a positive move forward. It’s not trying to take something away or pull back into a world in the past. It’s how we create a framework and societal etiquette around something that’s radically new and everyone’s trying to appreciate the internet’s potential and possibilities.”
The wider TechScape
A bear in a field in Montana.
Why are wildlife biologists are chasing after bears with drones in the American west?
“First buddy” Elon Musk and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy were formally appointed as heads of Doge, or the Department of Government Efficiency, to carry out slash-and-burn cuts. And Musk wants volunteer “high-IQ revolutionaries” to help them.
The Wall Street Journal has the inside story (£) on how the tech industry, particularly Meta and Alphabet, has lobbied against the US Kids Online Safety Act.
The Guardian will no longer post on X from its official accounts.
And why are so many people leaving X for Bluesky? Tom Ambrose profiles the heavily moderated platform.
Trump’s incoming administration is planning to loosen restrictions on self-driving cars, a priority for Musk, Bloomberg reports.
Bitcoin and Dogecoin are going hog wild in the wake of Trump’s victory.
Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain have released a cover of the rap song Get Low."
The Guardian has gone to Blue Sky too, but since I get it in my inbox, which is in gmail, so I plan to get a different email and transition all my accounts over the next 2 months.
Also, my family and friends and I use Signal, but since it is also platformed in the US, I am anticipating needing to use something else. We are looking at a Swiss one that we have to pay a monthly fee for, but it does a lot of the same things.
There are so many things to take care of now. I am in Europe. Most NATO countries don't want to be caught out like Ukraine. So, one we want to keep supporting it, but also prepare for Putin and Trump to ally and start attacking other countries as well. I am already talking with family and American friends living here about these plans. Like where to meet in case, or war, and where we might be safer. Scandinavian countries are preparing their populations for war by updating their plans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
So, let us hope that Blue Sky does move overseas. I just think of how Meduza had to leave Russia and move to Estonia. I get their publication too.
The US and all of its bases, embassies, ships, planes, and citizens is less safe now than it was before they resigned. This is a gift from Musk and Trump to Putin.
So, if military leaders stay, I am going to hope and assume that they stand up to any requests to stray from the constitution. They also have an intelligence department, but Project 2025 plans to implode both the IC and the DOD, and remove the leadership and make new appointments and while they are doing this, who knows what bad actors will do. If I were Zelenskiy, I would be offering consulting positions for anyone that resigns now, as should NATO countries.
We will be 85. I wonder what number my husband's SS card holds. I don't get SS because of the type of teacher retirement I have from California. Drunk on power. They all are. And, sadly, I believe this is the tip of the iceberg. We'll see. The only dim light, is that we can flip thing in just two years. And "he" knows that. I don't know what the answer is for now. I am reading that resistanced doesn't work. We are acting locally - suiting up and showing up and being supportive of our City Council, County Commissioners and our School Boards.
I had to sign up for Therapy this time around - first time - 66 - I thought somehow these would be golden years - HAH...Joke was on me. I was in a mostly MSM blackout since 2016 which helped my mental health but after this election I had to go total MSM Blackout & get therapy. I keep telling myself that we're here at this time for a reason. Hang in there.
Actually you’ll be older than 80 before this is done. Because first of all this is gonna be the best years Of America has ever seen so you should live longer and I’ll give you a to even rejoice Trump could resign his presidency 2 1/2 for three years in JD Vance becomes president and does a good job and serves eight more years by which time you’ll be 88
Well, I’m guessing I’d hate to be your son and I’m not a bot which makes it worse for you because now you have to come up with some rational dialogue. Rather than just throwing insults and making stupid decisions about what America should do as far as Ukraine where we should’ve never been in the first place you’re obviously young and naïve, but you’ll learn and that’s coming very very soon
It’s only been less than two weeks and already the world is waking up. Optimistic burdens lifted off their shoulders and other governments are taking note.
Just today, the socialist leader of Canada Justin Trudeau announced he was making severe cuts in allowances of the number of immigrants into Canada. Uh oh. Berkeley has announced that it’s going to be cleaning up its homeless encampments Israel is cheering the entry of Trump as president and rightfully so Madison Square Garden gave him a roaring standing ovation right in the heart of the beast of Liberal dominance once upon a time
The ever insulting cast of morning Joe went tomorrow, Lago today and was welcomed by Hitler. He actually welcome them there after they called him every name in the book for the past year and a half and Joe and Mika who are now down to about 95,000 viewers and realizing they were on the wrong track have gone down there to try to save their careers and their program. The Trump dance is everywhere. Athletes politicians businessman, even the NFL players are now doing the Trump dance. And Colin Kaepernick will die in infamy
People are now putting Trump signs on their lawns after the election.
And even the New York Times is welcoming, Maha and said that this is a great thing that RFK Junior will be working to make children healthy again as Trump has installed not one but two Democrats in his cabinet. Even Cory Booker says the same thing. So get on board or get left behind insults aren’t working the basket of the portables. I’m sorry the basket of 76 million deplorable’s have spoken. The sun will begin to rise again on America and it’s greatness welcome to the New World
It took me a minute to translate "went tomorrow, Lago today". AI botspeak isn't improving. "Basket of the portables"??? No, no - da English no first language, think I. Worse than those captains. Er, captions.
Thank You, Anne-Louise! I wanted to be charitable about the broken English, but now I see that I was wrong. AI is getting better, I think, but there is still lots of room for improvement.
Obviously, and unfortunately, you’ve missed most of my earlier texts that indicate that I voice text all the time and I view most of the readers here are intelligence enough to figure out the content of what I’m saying. And demonstrably I am 99% content and one percent form whereas many people here are form over content. What a waste. I’m not writing my thesis here.
The strange phrasing, very uniform poor punctuation style, general cadence, and the order the grievances are listed - Ukraine first - leads me to believe this is a Russian bot we are dealing with.
Also, I counted 9 fairly long posts and 4 shorter ones, all with the same time stamp. A human could do this, but it isn't likely.
The reason I’m doing it is because I’m voice texting and I’m going from one response to the next. So it doesn’t take me a long time to speak probably a minute or so to do a very long text maybe two. But I crack up that people have this infection of Russia. What the hell is that and where is it coming from? Yikes as far as Ukraine is concerned, we should be nowhere near there. nowhere
For those of you who are too young to remember Vietnam, this is exactly what Vietnam looked like the only difference here is 60,000 Ukrainians have died versus 60,000 Americans and yet we pissed away $200 billion that could be used here for the homeless and the poor.
Steve And, I say this tongue in cheek so please understand that it is my attempt at humor. There’s a company that is now putting together a package deal for liberals. Trying to figure out why you lost the election. It’s two major components. it is a combination in a box crystal ball and a Ouija board
Optimism is what helps. The soul pessimism is a downer and being negative in advance is even worse. So await results and then judge. And if you judgment is correct, it will be just that correct
I’m sorry for that. I voice text everything and because I have so many responses to attend to I kind of focus on something that a lot of so-called educated people inappropriately prioritize. I’m a big believer in content over form. Missing a capital letter or a period at the end of a sentence or a word that can be spelled differently, or run into another word is immaterial minutia. I would like to respect the people here and therefore think that they could probably figure it out since they’re intelligent. And I’m guessing the little ditties that you mentioned above, you were able actually to figure out that I meant basket of deplorable and when I said, while voice texting, I went to Mar-a-Lago that the computer picked up the way it looks to you there but I have confidence and faith in you that you understood it and I’ll leave it at that. I continue to voice text and misspell or poorly punctuated sentence but I don’t look at that as important as getting the content across and I don’t necessarily have the time to go back and correct it like I’m in 10th grade English diagramming a sentence. I apologize if that’s not acceptable with you and you can certainly choose just to disregard any missive that I send but it’s more important that you understand the meaning and in fact, if you’d like to refute or dispute or to have a meaningful dialogue about it, I’m here
You should take a look at Berkeley cleaning up homeless encampments, Newsom has been working on this project for years and running to the go to that it’s being done suddenly because of Trump is laughable. Trump who famously claimed homelessness was a new thing 2 years before he took office and never existed before that. You know, just trying to blame it on Obama. You support the man who doesn’t care if you die and prefers it would be a bloody, gory death to satisfy his perversion for horrific things to happen to people.
A slightly disingenuous post to say the least. Trump never said that homeless is didn’t exist prior to that what he said was it didn’t exist to this extent before that, and he was correct unless you’re in communicator with the world, there are homeless encampments in every single major city, causing substantial inconvenience and cost of those cities in fact, removing tenants from hotels and buildings and placing illegal immigrants in them instead and giving them free debit cards and medical coverage when Americans can’t even afford it. And I will proceed now.
Gavin Newsom now presides over a state that I live in for over 30 yearsthat used to be the shining star of the United States. it’s now an armpit, including San Francisco crime ridden, drug ridden tent ridden, and I could write you some and Etal stories if you’d like to hear them we just went back to LA for the week to visit friends. The entire downtown city smells like urine. Restaurants that have been open 80 or 90 years are threatening to close because they can’t control the encampments in the criminal element. They just removed a district attorney, who is allowing felons to be let out of jail the following day, only to commit more heinous crimes the next day. Newsome will receive his due reward. Trust me. But it’s not what you think. And this is what really hysterical CALIFORNIA CONTINUES TO ESPOUSE THE FACT THAT IT HAS THE FOURTH OR FIFTH OR SIXTH HIGHEST GDP IN THE WORLD, BUT LEAVES THE REST OUT IT DOESN’T TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT’S ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY TAXED STATES IN THE WORLD THAT HAS A HUGE DEFICIT AND KEEPS MISSING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT ON THESE ILLEGALS BUT THEY DON’T KNOW EVEN WHERE IT IS. WHY IF IT’S SUCH A PRODUCTIVE GDP STATE, ARE THEY WHAT ARE THE MOST TAX STATES IN THE COUNTRY? WHY ARE PEOPLE FLEEING IN MASS FROM CALIFORNIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROBABLY 50 YEARS.
Please don’t even start with me on Obama, who was the most divisive and most racist president we’ve ever had in our lifetime
Even the history books, acknowledge, he didn’t do anything for the black community that he promised to do other than give them free phones, and insult the whites Trevon could’ve been, my son the police acted stupidly, and sat by wall organizations like BLM and antifa destroyed in the defaced cities
I’m not gonna waste my time talking about that, but I will address your other concerns above. Ok?
Try this and see if this helps you. Trump administration, accomplishments. He had the lowest unemployment for minorities in 60 years and the highest employment by minorities in 60 years back to the 60s. He also increase the income for middle class, workers buy an average of $6000 per year. Look it up.
He also did quite a bit to salvage the damage from a once a century, global pandemic he was able through his reducing regulations policy to get the vaccines to the public some 3 1/2 years before they normally take. And just by the way, the same number of people died from the effects of Covid under Trump as under Biden look it up and Biden had a two-year Headstart. Also you might want to look up this fact that today they’re approximating between 75 and 90% of people have died from Covid died from a secondary disease already present in the body which created a weekend immune system. Not that that matters but Covid wasn’t the only suspect.
AND LASTLY, I DO NOT SUPPORT THE MAN AND I WILL PROVIDE A QUOTE FOR YOU THAT MAYBE WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND.
ONE VERY PROMINENT CITIZEN STATED THE FOLLOWING I DO NOT NECESSARILY LIKE OR SUPPORT TRUMP. HOWEVER, I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE POLICIES HE’S INSTITUTED ON BEHALF OF ALL THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA. AND THERE IT IS IN A NUTSHELL. Thank you for joining in this conversation.
Blah blah blah denying things that aren’t too difficult to find recordings of show you are more interested in propping him up than actual facts. Sometimes facing reality is too hard for people, you seem to be one of them. I’m done responding to a bot/person/paid Russian troll who claims he wants the libs to face reality while sane washing the biggest liar of all.
Oh, and here’s a few other things you might want to know ever since he was elected things are changing in America for the better already. Zelenskyy thinks that Trump will end the war soon. The European Union has offered now to buy our natural gas instead of out of Russia. The New York Times, not a ration of Trump. Support has acknowledged the positive nature of RFK Junior’s involvement in helping America get healthy. As has a long time opponent Cory Booker said the same. And as a matter fact, Trump has done something that no other president has done. He has place to Democrats people of the opposite party in his cabinet and he has placed the first ever woman as the chief of staff in American history. What a misogynist. Lol
Pierre Trudeau, a hater of Trump, has just announced yesterday that he was going to start reducing the number of immigrants to Canada because it’s hurting his country. Hmmmm
Athletes and people everywhere have started to do the Trump dance in public and many people are placing from signs under yards after he was elected. He got a raucous welcome from Madison Square Garden where a few weeks ago according to your You’re lying media he was holding the Nazi rally. Omg. And the winner of the belt actually got the entire stadium to start chanting USA right in the belly of the beast of the Democrat party New York City. Morning Joe, which is lost an incredible number of yours has actually gone down to visit Hitler himself after they called him Hitler, and every other name of the book Trump opened his home to them and welcomed them in to have a discussion. And Joe Biden had a two hour meeting with Hitler himself. Incredible. Maybe I’ll stop believing by hyperbole and the histrionics now. Things are gonna be changing for the better welcome them is my best suggestion to you. And with that, I will leave you with a quote from Abraham Lincoln. Most people are as happy as a make up their mind to be. Your call.
Dude? You're in over you head and our of your league. Take a hike and on you way out? Apologize to your betters. Which would be everyone on this thread.
He’s here because he lives to agitate, antagonize and spread hatred. When he joins conversations of people that think like him he’s just another cog spewing the same nonsense and everyone ignores him. His profile claims he’s interested in facts and ending hate so he’s a typical hypocrite with no life and no one to listen to him. He’s a loser.
You see and that’s exactly why I’m here. Because otherwise, this would be nothing more than vast majority of liberal lemmings commiserating themselves because not only will Donald Trump be president that they hate for no reason, but they will have to see him every day just like when you break up with somebody and you have to see them anyway because they work in the same office, etc. I’m here as a Opposing view just like in a courtroom where you might think a man is guilty after the prosecution states their case until you hear that the perpetrator was somewhere else in the world and couldn’t have caused the crime A lot of you here need that view because for the next four years, you’re going to be seeing it every day and it be much happier for you to try to understand what just happened in this last election in four years when things are better, I’m hoping you’ll be open-minded enough to celebrate America and his and our success By the way, dude if I’m out of your league and I should take a hike is it because you don’t like what you’re hearing because you can’t refute and deal with the truth ? Governments and people all over the planet and in the US I’ve already recognized what Trump brings and I’m making changes almost immediately. Including the European Union Canada The Liberal networks and even Berkeley of all places places that is now commented that they’re going to start cleaning up their homeless in encampments. It’s a new day. When you only hear one side of a argument, you have nothing else to believe at least 76 million people don’t believe like you you might want to give that a thought 49 out of 50 states got redder. We’re in for a beautiful ride. Try to enjoy it. Don’t be a fatalist and don’t be prejudiced which means prejudging what will happen because you’ve obviously most of you are forgotten that Trump was already president and if not for Covid would still be an office today because of his policies and because prices were low there were no world wars crime was low cost of living was cheap, and the border was secure if you don’t like that, then you’re out of your own league
If you were really here as an "opposing view" (called "opposing counsel" in the courtroom, BTW) then you would be sharing an different understanding, backed by facts, attempting to have an honest and altruistic discourse.
So far, you have shared thoughts and feelings, which makes you as much a "snowflake" as the rest of us. Is this revenge? Did some libtard come into one of your discussion boards in 2020 and call you a lemming? Examine your motivations.
Show me facts, with sources. The burden of proof is on you for making the claim (also something from a courtroom).
Otherwise, it is my observed belief that you are here because it entertains you. You want to blame Democrats for being condescending and sanctimonious? Make sure you don't walk down the same path - though, you're more than half way there already.
TJB, yup, your last paragraph nails it. All the trolls that have appeared here over the years are like the old time landline heavy breathers. Even negative posts give him a......"thrill" so to speak. Don't feed him. Thanks!
Yeah I'm way past done and won't be responding to him further. I like to try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt - I'm always up for a good debate with respectful people.
This is obviously not one of them. Blocked and reported.
Well, I learned a long time ago. It’s probably not a good thing to try to put your head on someone else’s shoulders and trying to figure out my motivations you have miscalculated tremendously. Wow and thank you for teaching me those terms “ opposing counsel” and you don’t think you’re condescending… yikes.
Somebody on another blog, let’s call it. X sent me a message from an ardent. Trump hater, and it made its way back here. my certainly don’t need to be entertained, but what I noticed was what I said in many of my posts.
What I see here are a lot of TDS victims that were brought here through media lies and deception. What brought me further in was the constant miscalculation by the people who I’m referring to that use the terms such as racism, bigotry xenophobia misogyny fascism, and the most disgusting use of the word Hitler that I can’t even imagine that people are that stupid or that ignorant that they would actually use that word to compare anybody to that human being. It got me angry.
And what I saw was nothing more than people commiserating themselves with sympathy and Kleenex because we have a new president like we generally get every four or eight years Many of the people were let astray
By the lies deceptions and divisiveness of our once even keeled Legacy media, which no longer exists.
My motivation was simply to point out to people that there are people that do not think like them that are not crazy that are not lunatics that are not subversives that are not hateful people…. Just people that see things 180° different than most of the people here.
I don’t necessarily like using phrases like this, but I do believe that minds are like parachutes. They work better when they’re open. Most of the people here don’t seem to see it that way they want me to leave.
If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll see that all the major media including ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, Facebook and even Google and up till very recently Twitter were all significantly left, leaning despite their ownership in some cases, but they all called for shutting down free speech Especially Twitter and if not for Elon Musk, one of the most ingenious human beings in history who has done things that even our government has not been able to accomplish, has risk his fortune to open that particular venue to be able to say what you want without your voice being squelched or eliminated.
One frightening example of Google if they really have no competition from a browsing perspective. so if you want to see how biased websites can be oracles as they’re so-called, I started to put a couple of words in my browser in Google and see how they came out They all came out the same and a list hear what I mean
One example that I will give you, I just put two words into my browser Gore/Bush. That was it and I wanted to see what links would come up. This wasn’t an isolated situation by the way and I’m sure that pretty soon they’re going to be competitors trying to develop alternative browsers although I believe that Google will start to realize what it’s done and what it’s doing
In any event when I put those two words into my browser and hit enter, I received obviously 1 million pieces of information. When I started examining the links to websites that were exposed by this query, I went through 22 pages and 216 links before I received any notable conservative links such as Newsmax or Fox News. Then I started doing that with other queries same same the funniest thing was all the links that led up to those search to go through all those pages and to go through all those links just to find a conservative one… there were probably 30 or 40 repetitive links of the same exact link for example CNN or MSNBC or MSN or CBS we’re listed a number of times over and over again with the same exact link before the conservative links were reached but even funnier than that, there were links for such websites that you’ve never heard of. Wouldn’t even think to visit with names of Podunk cities or newspapers Named dispatch or gazette
And when searching those names found their circulation to be minuscule.
Bottom line, sir I think it’s important for people to know that there’s other lives out there and while it’s fine to have friends too support you and put your head on their shoulder, etc. it’s just as important to realize that maybe you’re not thinking the way you should because all you’re seeing is one side of the story sorry for the run-on feel free to chime in
Oh AND TO YOUR LAST POINT ABOUT ALTRUISM, I BELIEVE I’M BEING VERY ALTRUISTIC BY TRYING TO HELP THOSE AROUND ME TO WIDEN THEIR SCOPE OF VISION AND OPEN THEIR MIND TO ALTERNATIVE VISIONS TO THOSE OF THEIR OWN.
Sorry, even the New York Times and Cory Booker, not exactly a Trump sycophant, have welcomed Trump’s placing RFK Junior in his post to make our food healthier. And none other than the Trump haters themselves on morning Joe we’re welcomed today by Hitler himself, despite the fact that all they did was call him names for the last two years and insult him, and now they went down there to talk to him face-to-face, and he opened his arms to them, despite their lies and hate and what they call a meaningful conversation in trying to salvage their careers and the network that has no more viewers. Not sure if this is accurate but I heard they only have 95,000 viewers now and of course you know that CNN and MSNBC lost 40% of reviewer ship the day after the election oops
Well that’s a pity. Because an old saying I learned in college was minds are like parachutes they work better if they’re open. I really don’t care if you listen or not I know how happy the world is right now optimistic hopeful and welcoming the freedom and the change that is coming. I’m sorry if you don’t feel that way and get left behind, but that’s certainly your choice.
Yes, they do seem to pop up like bad pennies, as the saying goes. I wish people would simply NOT REPLY to him! In the past, I've reported and even tried to block, but it is such a long, time consuming process and seems to take a few dozen reports from various readers. Ignoring him is best. Don't reply. Period. He WILL become more outrageous, like his idol Trump, and just like Trump he needs that attention.
It won’t take that long. You’ll see it almost immediately Someone pointed out to me today that I beginning to understand more about the freak out that you liberals are having right now it’s like somebody broke up with you in a long-term relationship and not only do you hate them now but you have to see them every day because they live or work near you Fatalism and pessimism does no good for the body or the soul or the mind worst of all is negative in advance because it usually doesn’t turn out as bad as you think and it might even turn out great 76 million people think it will
You seem to be having some kumbaya moment that you want us all to join in. But we've been continually bombarded by his hateful rhetoric and maniacal rantings for nearly a decade. We've already seen what a horror show the first trump term was. It would appear that some of those 76 million trump voters might be amnesiacs and I'm pretty sure many of them will not like how things turn out.
Have tried to explain it over and over. The adults are not talking the adults are commiserating, crying, weeping, using up boxes of tissues, etc. that’s what you’re doing. I’m here as a voice of reason to push back so that you realize there’s always two sides to an argument. And you don’t see the same vision as 76 million Americans. Deplorable didn’t work too well for Hillary or anyone else that tried anything similar. Even Bill Maher has a better understanding of what happened here but you don’t wanna listen. You don’t wanna open your mind. You don’t wanna think positive thoughts you just wanna be negative in advance and fatalistic not good for the soul mind or the body. I’m just here as a balance not trying to insult anybody or throw anybody under a bus just that it’s better when you know all the facts all the sides and why things happened as they just did and it doesn’t appear here that you’re willing to welcome the rationale behind Donald Trump’s return to the White House. we are all in for a great ride and then the process most everyone is going to win just like they did and Trump’s first term before Covid hit a once in a century global pandemic so smile, and be happy, and one thing you obviously haven’t learned by your lineup above it doesn’t do you any favors, talking down or condescending to somebody especially when you have no idea who they are
Personally, I've been free for my entire long life -- apart from the years in the Army, half a century ago. We've heard " 'Tis an ill wind that blows no good". I don't see any good coming from the 47th president.
I don't know if I can survive the daily barrage of Trump and Republican insanity again...I'll be 80 before this "administration" is done.
I'm with you on that one. So many have worked hard for what rights we had. I don't know if it is possible for me to get over the anger and disappointment. I will be 78 by that time and I think it is time to jump ship and move to a country that respects their people...ALL their people!
Oh darlin’ I am urging Canada to build a wall. We created this shit hole country perhaps we should live in it
Have you heard this joke?
What borders on insanity? Canada and Mexico.
To Canada and Mexico who for so many years have been good neighbors thank you so much. But save yourselves and build those walls.
It is going to be so much worse. First of all, the leaders in the Intelligence Community turned in their resignations. See Jeff Stein of Spy Talk. https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/breaking-top-intelligence-igs-resign?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true
As of now US bases, embassies, planes, ships, people are all less safe because we are going to totally lose the chain of command with intelligence, let alone access to intel from our allies. Stein said the day before that MI6 is thinking of not sharing intel. I am sure the EU is discussing that too.
Musk told the EU that if they ban X, the US will pull out of NATO. Well, Trump is going to play the NATO card, and he may move troops, or bring them back home, but he is not developing trade partners this way. China and India are going to benefit from this, as well as African and other Asian countries. Everyone is preparing for his tariffs too. Here is an article discussing Trump's international policy.
https://pardot.csis.org/webmail/906722/3169409788/7fb3790e127db1fea8017946c5ab47fd41a1bf3a700f6568ba7dba887d14a0e4
I know from reading Project 2025, that nothing I am reading about appointments is surprising. And, knowing from people like Prof. Timothy Snyder that Trump and Musk are Russian assets and in cahoots with Putin, it is clear to me that he wants to hand the US to Putin and Xi on a silver platter. The whole world got less safe.
I am living in Europe. My American friends and I are wondering how we can access media we are used to using if the platforms like Substack get shut down. Is there a non-US based platform that the people we follow will be able to write on? Also, most of my friends here in Germany have VPNs, and I am getting one too. Most of my friends use Signal and not What's App, or have both. That is what my family uses too, but still, we know that many of the founders of Signal were initial on WhatsApp (others were from Yahoo). So even though it is freeware, they sold it to Meta. They profited from the sale. The Signal guys also helped Meta create the same encryption on their platform, so the encryption is pretty much the same. Signal is also based in the US. There is a mutualistic relationship between the two companies. A friends says she thinks Signal is marginally better, but not much.
My friend here is also talking about trying out Threema. It’s a Swiss company. It’s a paid app. It’s $5.99. I like a paid app model. I am worried that Musk will get rid of competition for his platform, and he now owns Trump. It was used to spread a lot of disinformation. Here is Prof. Snyder talking about that too. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign
Robert Hubbell also talked about how as the votes continue to be counted Trump now has less than 50% of the votes cast. Which given that 93 million eligible voters did not vote in this past election is less than a third of the eligible voters.
I wouldn't share intel with us either if I was from any of those allied nations that are looking warily at this once inspiring nation that had so much promise and influence on the world stage. If the American century wasn't already over then it most certainly will be soon after January 20, 2025...
Agreed! In fact, the smart ones will be snapping up our Intel people. Next we will see what happens with the DOD. DT cannot take over and destroy the Constitution with the White Supremacist militias alone. I am waiting to see what happens with the military leadership because they also have their own intelligence department which is discussed as the one to lean on in Project 2025. If they resign that is it.
Which is why I have called for a military coup before it’s too late. I would take my chances with the good generals and staff before the good ones go and the bad ones rule. Most likely, it’s all too late.
I am not saying coup. I am saying that if they refuse to enforce what Trump is doing as it violates the constitution then we will see that they serve the constitution and not the man.
When the Intel Chiefs Resign, this is Bad... When informed Concerned Citizens have to Hide, that is Bad... DJT, and his Minions Flood the Zone with Bull*....
Try Blue Sky
I am not on X or Facebook or any of those so I won't be going to Blue Sky, but a friend of mine got convinced to leave X to go to Blue Sky. However, Blue Sky's days could be numbered. It is a US based platform, and if Musk decides he does not like the Competition he can shut it down directly through Brendan Carr of FCC infamy, or if Trump gets the Republicans to pass HR 9495 they he can claim it is just a social danger picking apart some items and then it is gone. Read what Carr has to say about what social platforms have to be. https://newrepublic.com/post/188529/donald-trump-war-press-fcc-project-2025
Any US based platform is currently at risk. People should spend some energy looking for other sources, or creating them and basing them elsewhere.
Blue Sky is my first social media site. Preemptively not joining because it might be shut down is guaranteed to be a losing strategy by surrendering before attacked. What is needed is site that has enough followers to be effective. Obscure foreign sites will not be. If Blue Sky is shut down (unlikely, look at how difficult it has been to shut down Tik Tok), it can easily then just move its site overseas.
Right now my friends here and I are planning for the worst and hoping for the best. Here is what the Guardian says today about Brenden Carr, Trump's new FCC appointment. "Late Sunday, Trump announced he would nominate Brendan Carr as head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The conservative commissioner wrote a chapter on the furture of the FCC for Project 2025 (the infamous hard-right playbook for the second Trump administration), the only sitting government official to do so. Carr’s views on the US tech sector have mostly aligned with those of Trump and Musk. In recent months, they have all lambasted broadcast TV networks and public broadcasters.
Carr has advocated for going after Meta and Google, not to hem in monopolistic practices but to dismantle the “censorship cartel” of big tech companies that he believes are stifling conservative speech. Google, already reeling from the loss in its antitrust case against the US, may be a big loser in the incoming administration, as Trump has railed against it in campaign speeches. Carr has also supported banning TikTok over alleged national security threats.
Carr’s agency could be a political cudgel for Trump in his personal retribution against tech companies. The commissioner is a friend of the telecommunications industry and an enemy of Silicon Valley’s tech giants. Will he apply a hands-off approach to internet service providers, dismantling consumer protections in a boon to the industry’s large incumbents, and then apply scrutiny and harsh authority to the likes of Google and Facebook, sacrificing consistency in favor of political expediency?
“Brendan Carr has been campaigning for this job with promises to do the bidding of Donald Trump and Elon Musk,” said Craig Aaron, co-CEO of Free Press Action, a left-leaning media advocacy organization. “Carr doesn’t care about protecting the public interest; he got this job because he will carry out Trump and Musk’s personal vendettas.”
Carr could also turn the FCC into a commercial bludgeon for the “First Buddy”, as Musk has christened himself, against the billionaire’s tech rivals. A major beneficiary of the commissioner’s ascendance is likely to be Musk’s SpaceX, whose satellites and the internet service they provide are under the FCC’s purview. In his Project 2025 proposals for the FCC, Carr emphasizes his priority to “advance America’s space leadership”. He namechecks Starlink (SpaceX’s satellite internet firm) and says his agency will adopt as friendly a regulatory stance towards the company’s launch schedule as possible.
Lock up your phones
Yondr’s phone pouch
When everyone is digging for gold, sell shovels. That’s what a company called Yondr has found. As schools across the globe are implementing phone-free days and governments are discussing whether children should be banned from social media entirely, this brand has found a market opportunity. Founded in 2013, Yondr was one of the first companies to manufacture lockable phone pouches in which students (and others) can quarantine their devices. One million students use a Yondr pouch daily across 35 countries, CEO Graham Dugoni told the Guardian.
Dugoni said that when a principal, school district or state implements a phone-free policy, his company sees a spike in business. He was hesitant, however, to use the word “ban” when referring to schools’ policies towards phone usage. “No one’s doing anything wrong. And we’re not anti-tech as a company … It’s more how do we live with these tools in the future in a constructive way.”
Dugoni wants people to live in harmony with smartphones rather than prohibiting them, though he uses a flip phone and doesn’t maintain any social media profiles for himself or his company. “Creating a phone-free space is a positive move forward. It’s not trying to take something away or pull back into a world in the past. It’s how we create a framework and societal etiquette around something that’s radically new and everyone’s trying to appreciate the internet’s potential and possibilities.”
The wider TechScape
A bear in a field in Montana.
Why are wildlife biologists are chasing after bears with drones in the American west?
“First buddy” Elon Musk and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy were formally appointed as heads of Doge, or the Department of Government Efficiency, to carry out slash-and-burn cuts. And Musk wants volunteer “high-IQ revolutionaries” to help them.
The Wall Street Journal has the inside story (£) on how the tech industry, particularly Meta and Alphabet, has lobbied against the US Kids Online Safety Act.
The Guardian will no longer post on X from its official accounts.
And why are so many people leaving X for Bluesky? Tom Ambrose profiles the heavily moderated platform.
Trump’s incoming administration is planning to loosen restrictions on self-driving cars, a priority for Musk, Bloomberg reports.
Bitcoin and Dogecoin are going hog wild in the wake of Trump’s victory.
Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain have released a cover of the rap song Get Low."
The Guardian has gone to Blue Sky too, but since I get it in my inbox, which is in gmail, so I plan to get a different email and transition all my accounts over the next 2 months.
Also, my family and friends and I use Signal, but since it is also platformed in the US, I am anticipating needing to use something else. We are looking at a Swiss one that we have to pay a monthly fee for, but it does a lot of the same things.
There are so many things to take care of now. I am in Europe. Most NATO countries don't want to be caught out like Ukraine. So, one we want to keep supporting it, but also prepare for Putin and Trump to ally and start attacking other countries as well. I am already talking with family and American friends living here about these plans. Like where to meet in case, or war, and where we might be safer. Scandinavian countries are preparing their populations for war by updating their plans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
So, let us hope that Blue Sky does move overseas. I just think of how Meduza had to leave Russia and move to Estonia. I get their publication too.
As much as I hate to say it, I strongly suspect that quite a few in the media and legislative branch are kompromat or willing conspirators. 🤔
One thing I'm watching is how the military responds to Trump's plans to purge the brass of those he thinks are threats or insufficiently loyal to him.
I am totally watching the military. The Intelligence Community leadership has given notice. https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/breaking-top-intelligence-igs-resign?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true
The US and all of its bases, embassies, ships, planes, and citizens is less safe now than it was before they resigned. This is a gift from Musk and Trump to Putin.
So, if military leaders stay, I am going to hope and assume that they stand up to any requests to stray from the constitution. They also have an intelligence department, but Project 2025 plans to implode both the IC and the DOD, and remove the leadership and make new appointments and while they are doing this, who knows what bad actors will do. If I were Zelenskiy, I would be offering consulting positions for anyone that resigns now, as should NATO countries.
Anyone see this story reported by Rolling Stone for one-
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ryan-walters-demands-oklahoma-school-pray-trump-1235170916/
The education secretary of OK is trying to force kids to watch a video of himself where he demands students to pray for Trump.
Support the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Make everyone aware of the Fascist Project 2025 plan to turn the US into a theocracy. It's happening.
...that is some special kind of power trip. I seriously don't understand it.
Always have been and always will be against a theocracy. Thank you for the resource, I'll look into them and most likely donate.
Gary, all you have to say is "Oklahoma". Sigh.
We will be 85. I wonder what number my husband's SS card holds. I don't get SS because of the type of teacher retirement I have from California. Drunk on power. They all are. And, sadly, I believe this is the tip of the iceberg. We'll see. The only dim light, is that we can flip thing in just two years. And "he" knows that. I don't know what the answer is for now. I am reading that resistanced doesn't work. We are acting locally - suiting up and showing up and being supportive of our City Council, County Commissioners and our School Boards.
I wouldn't rely on another election in 2 years. Remember trump said this is the last time you'll have to vote!
He doesn’t have that authority .
I had to sign up for Therapy this time around - first time - 66 - I thought somehow these would be golden years - HAH...Joke was on me. I was in a mostly MSM blackout since 2016 which helped my mental health but after this election I had to go total MSM Blackout & get therapy. I keep telling myself that we're here at this time for a reason. Hang in there.
Me too.
Same here kiddo
Actually you’ll be older than 80 before this is done. Because first of all this is gonna be the best years Of America has ever seen so you should live longer and I’ll give you a to even rejoice Trump could resign his presidency 2 1/2 for three years in JD Vance becomes president and does a good job and serves eight more years by which time you’ll be 88
Take a lap, son, and go out for the junior varsity bot team.
Well, I’m guessing I’d hate to be your son and I’m not a bot which makes it worse for you because now you have to come up with some rational dialogue. Rather than just throwing insults and making stupid decisions about what America should do as far as Ukraine where we should’ve never been in the first place you’re obviously young and naïve, but you’ll learn and that’s coming very very soon
It’s only been less than two weeks and already the world is waking up. Optimistic burdens lifted off their shoulders and other governments are taking note.
Just today, the socialist leader of Canada Justin Trudeau announced he was making severe cuts in allowances of the number of immigrants into Canada. Uh oh. Berkeley has announced that it’s going to be cleaning up its homeless encampments Israel is cheering the entry of Trump as president and rightfully so Madison Square Garden gave him a roaring standing ovation right in the heart of the beast of Liberal dominance once upon a time
The ever insulting cast of morning Joe went tomorrow, Lago today and was welcomed by Hitler. He actually welcome them there after they called him every name in the book for the past year and a half and Joe and Mika who are now down to about 95,000 viewers and realizing they were on the wrong track have gone down there to try to save their careers and their program. The Trump dance is everywhere. Athletes politicians businessman, even the NFL players are now doing the Trump dance. And Colin Kaepernick will die in infamy
People are now putting Trump signs on their lawns after the election.
And even the New York Times is welcoming, Maha and said that this is a great thing that RFK Junior will be working to make children healthy again as Trump has installed not one but two Democrats in his cabinet. Even Cory Booker says the same thing. So get on board or get left behind insults aren’t working the basket of the portables. I’m sorry the basket of 76 million deplorable’s have spoken. The sun will begin to rise again on America and it’s greatness welcome to the New World
It took me a minute to translate "went tomorrow, Lago today". AI botspeak isn't improving. "Basket of the portables"??? No, no - da English no first language, think I. Worse than those captains. Er, captions.
Thank You, Anne-Louise! I wanted to be charitable about the broken English, but now I see that I was wrong. AI is getting better, I think, but there is still lots of room for improvement.
Obviously, and unfortunately, you’ve missed most of my earlier texts that indicate that I voice text all the time and I view most of the readers here are intelligence enough to figure out the content of what I’m saying. And demonstrably I am 99% content and one percent form whereas many people here are form over content. What a waste. I’m not writing my thesis here.
The strange phrasing, very uniform poor punctuation style, general cadence, and the order the grievances are listed - Ukraine first - leads me to believe this is a Russian bot we are dealing with.
Also, I counted 9 fairly long posts and 4 shorter ones, all with the same time stamp. A human could do this, but it isn't likely.
Yep. "Maha" for "MAGA".
He's a troll. Don't feed him please.
The reason I’m doing it is because I’m voice texting and I’m going from one response to the next. So it doesn’t take me a long time to speak probably a minute or so to do a very long text maybe two. But I crack up that people have this infection of Russia. What the hell is that and where is it coming from? Yikes as far as Ukraine is concerned, we should be nowhere near there. nowhere
For those of you who are too young to remember Vietnam, this is exactly what Vietnam looked like the only difference here is 60,000 Ukrainians have died versus 60,000 Americans and yet we pissed away $200 billion that could be used here for the homeless and the poor.
Steve And, I say this tongue in cheek so please understand that it is my attempt at humor. There’s a company that is now putting together a package deal for liberals. Trying to figure out why you lost the election. It’s two major components. it is a combination in a box crystal ball and a Ouija board
Optimism is what helps. The soul pessimism is a downer and being negative in advance is even worse. So await results and then judge. And if you judgment is correct, it will be just that correct
he's a troll. Ignore him.
PS I am certainly not a bot. Sorry to disappoint you.
...said the bot
ha ha
🤦🏻♀️….sigh, don’t know which is worse.
Then read a book, any book.
I’m sorry for that. I voice text everything and because I have so many responses to attend to I kind of focus on something that a lot of so-called educated people inappropriately prioritize. I’m a big believer in content over form. Missing a capital letter or a period at the end of a sentence or a word that can be spelled differently, or run into another word is immaterial minutia. I would like to respect the people here and therefore think that they could probably figure it out since they’re intelligent. And I’m guessing the little ditties that you mentioned above, you were able actually to figure out that I meant basket of deplorable and when I said, while voice texting, I went to Mar-a-Lago that the computer picked up the way it looks to you there but I have confidence and faith in you that you understood it and I’ll leave it at that. I continue to voice text and misspell or poorly punctuated sentence but I don’t look at that as important as getting the content across and I don’t necessarily have the time to go back and correct it like I’m in 10th grade English diagramming a sentence. I apologize if that’s not acceptable with you and you can certainly choose just to disregard any missive that I send but it’s more important that you understand the meaning and in fact, if you’d like to refute or dispute or to have a meaningful dialogue about it, I’m here
said the bot
Thank you for apologizing. Now I think it's your nap time.
You should take a look at Berkeley cleaning up homeless encampments, Newsom has been working on this project for years and running to the go to that it’s being done suddenly because of Trump is laughable. Trump who famously claimed homelessness was a new thing 2 years before he took office and never existed before that. You know, just trying to blame it on Obama. You support the man who doesn’t care if you die and prefers it would be a bloody, gory death to satisfy his perversion for horrific things to happen to people.
A slightly disingenuous post to say the least. Trump never said that homeless is didn’t exist prior to that what he said was it didn’t exist to this extent before that, and he was correct unless you’re in communicator with the world, there are homeless encampments in every single major city, causing substantial inconvenience and cost of those cities in fact, removing tenants from hotels and buildings and placing illegal immigrants in them instead and giving them free debit cards and medical coverage when Americans can’t even afford it. And I will proceed now.
Gavin Newsom now presides over a state that I live in for over 30 yearsthat used to be the shining star of the United States. it’s now an armpit, including San Francisco crime ridden, drug ridden tent ridden, and I could write you some and Etal stories if you’d like to hear them we just went back to LA for the week to visit friends. The entire downtown city smells like urine. Restaurants that have been open 80 or 90 years are threatening to close because they can’t control the encampments in the criminal element. They just removed a district attorney, who is allowing felons to be let out of jail the following day, only to commit more heinous crimes the next day. Newsome will receive his due reward. Trust me. But it’s not what you think. And this is what really hysterical CALIFORNIA CONTINUES TO ESPOUSE THE FACT THAT IT HAS THE FOURTH OR FIFTH OR SIXTH HIGHEST GDP IN THE WORLD, BUT LEAVES THE REST OUT IT DOESN’T TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT’S ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY TAXED STATES IN THE WORLD THAT HAS A HUGE DEFICIT AND KEEPS MISSING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT ON THESE ILLEGALS BUT THEY DON’T KNOW EVEN WHERE IT IS. WHY IF IT’S SUCH A PRODUCTIVE GDP STATE, ARE THEY WHAT ARE THE MOST TAX STATES IN THE COUNTRY? WHY ARE PEOPLE FLEEING IN MASS FROM CALIFORNIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROBABLY 50 YEARS.
Please don’t even start with me on Obama, who was the most divisive and most racist president we’ve ever had in our lifetime
Even the history books, acknowledge, he didn’t do anything for the black community that he promised to do other than give them free phones, and insult the whites Trevon could’ve been, my son the police acted stupidly, and sat by wall organizations like BLM and antifa destroyed in the defaced cities
I’m not gonna waste my time talking about that, but I will address your other concerns above. Ok?
Try this and see if this helps you. Trump administration, accomplishments. He had the lowest unemployment for minorities in 60 years and the highest employment by minorities in 60 years back to the 60s. He also increase the income for middle class, workers buy an average of $6000 per year. Look it up.
He also did quite a bit to salvage the damage from a once a century, global pandemic he was able through his reducing regulations policy to get the vaccines to the public some 3 1/2 years before they normally take. And just by the way, the same number of people died from the effects of Covid under Trump as under Biden look it up and Biden had a two-year Headstart. Also you might want to look up this fact that today they’re approximating between 75 and 90% of people have died from Covid died from a secondary disease already present in the body which created a weekend immune system. Not that that matters but Covid wasn’t the only suspect.
AND LASTLY, I DO NOT SUPPORT THE MAN AND I WILL PROVIDE A QUOTE FOR YOU THAT MAYBE WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND.
ONE VERY PROMINENT CITIZEN STATED THE FOLLOWING I DO NOT NECESSARILY LIKE OR SUPPORT TRUMP. HOWEVER, I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE POLICIES HE’S INSTITUTED ON BEHALF OF ALL THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA. AND THERE IT IS IN A NUTSHELL. Thank you for joining in this conversation.
Blah blah blah denying things that aren’t too difficult to find recordings of show you are more interested in propping him up than actual facts. Sometimes facing reality is too hard for people, you seem to be one of them. I’m done responding to a bot/person/paid Russian troll who claims he wants the libs to face reality while sane washing the biggest liar of all.
Sorry, typo and voice texting very common with me. Should’ve said.Two democrats in his cabinet not to. My bad.
Please don't feed the troll. YOu won't change his mind and you only give him oxygen.
Oh, and here’s a few other things you might want to know ever since he was elected things are changing in America for the better already. Zelenskyy thinks that Trump will end the war soon. The European Union has offered now to buy our natural gas instead of out of Russia. The New York Times, not a ration of Trump. Support has acknowledged the positive nature of RFK Junior’s involvement in helping America get healthy. As has a long time opponent Cory Booker said the same. And as a matter fact, Trump has done something that no other president has done. He has place to Democrats people of the opposite party in his cabinet and he has placed the first ever woman as the chief of staff in American history. What a misogynist. Lol
Pierre Trudeau, a hater of Trump, has just announced yesterday that he was going to start reducing the number of immigrants to Canada because it’s hurting his country. Hmmmm
Athletes and people everywhere have started to do the Trump dance in public and many people are placing from signs under yards after he was elected. He got a raucous welcome from Madison Square Garden where a few weeks ago according to your You’re lying media he was holding the Nazi rally. Omg. And the winner of the belt actually got the entire stadium to start chanting USA right in the belly of the beast of the Democrat party New York City. Morning Joe, which is lost an incredible number of yours has actually gone down to visit Hitler himself after they called him Hitler, and every other name of the book Trump opened his home to them and welcomed them in to have a discussion. And Joe Biden had a two hour meeting with Hitler himself. Incredible. Maybe I’ll stop believing by hyperbole and the histrionics now. Things are gonna be changing for the better welcome them is my best suggestion to you. And with that, I will leave you with a quote from Abraham Lincoln. Most people are as happy as a make up their mind to be. Your call.
Um why are you here? You don’t see us over on your MAGA pages spewing ignorance. Go play with your friends. The adults are talking.
PLEASE don't feed the troll!
Dude? You're in over you head and our of your league. Take a hike and on you way out? Apologize to your betters. Which would be everyone on this thread.
He’s here because he lives to agitate, antagonize and spread hatred. When he joins conversations of people that think like him he’s just another cog spewing the same nonsense and everyone ignores him. His profile claims he’s interested in facts and ending hate so he’s a typical hypocrite with no life and no one to listen to him. He’s a loser.
Please don't feed the troll. Even negative attention feeds him.
You see and that’s exactly why I’m here. Because otherwise, this would be nothing more than vast majority of liberal lemmings commiserating themselves because not only will Donald Trump be president that they hate for no reason, but they will have to see him every day just like when you break up with somebody and you have to see them anyway because they work in the same office, etc. I’m here as a Opposing view just like in a courtroom where you might think a man is guilty after the prosecution states their case until you hear that the perpetrator was somewhere else in the world and couldn’t have caused the crime A lot of you here need that view because for the next four years, you’re going to be seeing it every day and it be much happier for you to try to understand what just happened in this last election in four years when things are better, I’m hoping you’ll be open-minded enough to celebrate America and his and our success By the way, dude if I’m out of your league and I should take a hike is it because you don’t like what you’re hearing because you can’t refute and deal with the truth ? Governments and people all over the planet and in the US I’ve already recognized what Trump brings and I’m making changes almost immediately. Including the European Union Canada The Liberal networks and even Berkeley of all places places that is now commented that they’re going to start cleaning up their homeless in encampments. It’s a new day. When you only hear one side of a argument, you have nothing else to believe at least 76 million people don’t believe like you you might want to give that a thought 49 out of 50 states got redder. We’re in for a beautiful ride. Try to enjoy it. Don’t be a fatalist and don’t be prejudiced which means prejudging what will happen because you’ve obviously most of you are forgotten that Trump was already president and if not for Covid would still be an office today because of his policies and because prices were low there were no world wars crime was low cost of living was cheap, and the border was secure if you don’t like that, then you’re out of your own league
If you were really here as an "opposing view" (called "opposing counsel" in the courtroom, BTW) then you would be sharing an different understanding, backed by facts, attempting to have an honest and altruistic discourse.
So far, you have shared thoughts and feelings, which makes you as much a "snowflake" as the rest of us. Is this revenge? Did some libtard come into one of your discussion boards in 2020 and call you a lemming? Examine your motivations.
Show me facts, with sources. The burden of proof is on you for making the claim (also something from a courtroom).
Otherwise, it is my observed belief that you are here because it entertains you. You want to blame Democrats for being condescending and sanctimonious? Make sure you don't walk down the same path - though, you're more than half way there already.
TJB, yup, your last paragraph nails it. All the trolls that have appeared here over the years are like the old time landline heavy breathers. Even negative posts give him a......"thrill" so to speak. Don't feed him. Thanks!
Yeah I'm way past done and won't be responding to him further. I like to try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt - I'm always up for a good debate with respectful people.
This is obviously not one of them. Blocked and reported.
Well, I learned a long time ago. It’s probably not a good thing to try to put your head on someone else’s shoulders and trying to figure out my motivations you have miscalculated tremendously. Wow and thank you for teaching me those terms “ opposing counsel” and you don’t think you’re condescending… yikes.
Somebody on another blog, let’s call it. X sent me a message from an ardent. Trump hater, and it made its way back here. my certainly don’t need to be entertained, but what I noticed was what I said in many of my posts.
What I see here are a lot of TDS victims that were brought here through media lies and deception. What brought me further in was the constant miscalculation by the people who I’m referring to that use the terms such as racism, bigotry xenophobia misogyny fascism, and the most disgusting use of the word Hitler that I can’t even imagine that people are that stupid or that ignorant that they would actually use that word to compare anybody to that human being. It got me angry.
And what I saw was nothing more than people commiserating themselves with sympathy and Kleenex because we have a new president like we generally get every four or eight years Many of the people were let astray
By the lies deceptions and divisiveness of our once even keeled Legacy media, which no longer exists.
My motivation was simply to point out to people that there are people that do not think like them that are not crazy that are not lunatics that are not subversives that are not hateful people…. Just people that see things 180° different than most of the people here.
I don’t necessarily like using phrases like this, but I do believe that minds are like parachutes. They work better when they’re open. Most of the people here don’t seem to see it that way they want me to leave.
If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll see that all the major media including ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, Facebook and even Google and up till very recently Twitter were all significantly left, leaning despite their ownership in some cases, but they all called for shutting down free speech Especially Twitter and if not for Elon Musk, one of the most ingenious human beings in history who has done things that even our government has not been able to accomplish, has risk his fortune to open that particular venue to be able to say what you want without your voice being squelched or eliminated.
One frightening example of Google if they really have no competition from a browsing perspective. so if you want to see how biased websites can be oracles as they’re so-called, I started to put a couple of words in my browser in Google and see how they came out They all came out the same and a list hear what I mean
One example that I will give you, I just put two words into my browser Gore/Bush. That was it and I wanted to see what links would come up. This wasn’t an isolated situation by the way and I’m sure that pretty soon they’re going to be competitors trying to develop alternative browsers although I believe that Google will start to realize what it’s done and what it’s doing
In any event when I put those two words into my browser and hit enter, I received obviously 1 million pieces of information. When I started examining the links to websites that were exposed by this query, I went through 22 pages and 216 links before I received any notable conservative links such as Newsmax or Fox News. Then I started doing that with other queries same same the funniest thing was all the links that led up to those search to go through all those pages and to go through all those links just to find a conservative one… there were probably 30 or 40 repetitive links of the same exact link for example CNN or MSNBC or MSN or CBS we’re listed a number of times over and over again with the same exact link before the conservative links were reached but even funnier than that, there were links for such websites that you’ve never heard of. Wouldn’t even think to visit with names of Podunk cities or newspapers Named dispatch or gazette
And when searching those names found their circulation to be minuscule.
Bottom line, sir I think it’s important for people to know that there’s other lives out there and while it’s fine to have friends too support you and put your head on their shoulder, etc. it’s just as important to realize that maybe you’re not thinking the way you should because all you’re seeing is one side of the story sorry for the run-on feel free to chime in
Oh AND TO YOUR LAST POINT ABOUT ALTRUISM, I BELIEVE I’M BEING VERY ALTRUISTIC BY TRYING TO HELP THOSE AROUND ME TO WIDEN THEIR SCOPE OF VISION AND OPEN THEIR MIND TO ALTERNATIVE VISIONS TO THOSE OF THEIR OWN.
Sorry, even the New York Times and Cory Booker, not exactly a Trump sycophant, have welcomed Trump’s placing RFK Junior in his post to make our food healthier. And none other than the Trump haters themselves on morning Joe we’re welcomed today by Hitler himself, despite the fact that all they did was call him names for the last two years and insult him, and now they went down there to talk to him face-to-face, and he opened his arms to them, despite their lies and hate and what they call a meaningful conversation in trying to salvage their careers and the network that has no more viewers. Not sure if this is accurate but I heard they only have 95,000 viewers now and of course you know that CNN and MSNBC lost 40% of reviewer ship the day after the election oops
Rick, you have no hope of influencing anyone here. Your screed is like noise carried on the wind, drifting in from the street.
Don't feed the troll please.
A mosquito!
Well that’s a pity. Because an old saying I learned in college was minds are like parachutes they work better if they’re open. I really don’t care if you listen or not I know how happy the world is right now optimistic hopeful and welcoming the freedom and the change that is coming. I’m sorry if you don’t feel that way and get left behind, but that’s certainly your choice.
How is it that LFAA got rid of one Ashh0le and another apears like magic. At least he reminds us of the intellect of MAGAt voters
Hello Allen.
Yes, they do seem to pop up like bad pennies, as the saying goes. I wish people would simply NOT REPLY to him! In the past, I've reported and even tried to block, but it is such a long, time consuming process and seems to take a few dozen reports from various readers. Ignoring him is best. Don't reply. Period. He WILL become more outrageous, like his idol Trump, and just like Trump he needs that attention.
How indeed, Allen.
You. Are. Joking. Report back in a year.
Please don't feed the troll. No matter how tempting it is. You fall into his trap that way. He doesn't have a single opinion worth listening to.
It won’t take that long. You’ll see it almost immediately Someone pointed out to me today that I beginning to understand more about the freak out that you liberals are having right now it’s like somebody broke up with you in a long-term relationship and not only do you hate them now but you have to see them every day because they live or work near you Fatalism and pessimism does no good for the body or the soul or the mind worst of all is negative in advance because it usually doesn’t turn out as bad as you think and it might even turn out great 76 million people think it will
You seem to be having some kumbaya moment that you want us all to join in. But we've been continually bombarded by his hateful rhetoric and maniacal rantings for nearly a decade. We've already seen what a horror show the first trump term was. It would appear that some of those 76 million trump voters might be amnesiacs and I'm pretty sure many of them will not like how things turn out.
Please don't reply to him in the future. You're stroking his ego.
Dude. Why are you here?
He's a troll.
Have tried to explain it over and over. The adults are not talking the adults are commiserating, crying, weeping, using up boxes of tissues, etc. that’s what you’re doing. I’m here as a voice of reason to push back so that you realize there’s always two sides to an argument. And you don’t see the same vision as 76 million Americans. Deplorable didn’t work too well for Hillary or anyone else that tried anything similar. Even Bill Maher has a better understanding of what happened here but you don’t wanna listen. You don’t wanna open your mind. You don’t wanna think positive thoughts you just wanna be negative in advance and fatalistic not good for the soul mind or the body. I’m just here as a balance not trying to insult anybody or throw anybody under a bus just that it’s better when you know all the facts all the sides and why things happened as they just did and it doesn’t appear here that you’re willing to welcome the rationale behind Donald Trump’s return to the White House. we are all in for a great ride and then the process most everyone is going to win just like they did and Trump’s first term before Covid hit a once in a century global pandemic so smile, and be happy, and one thing you obviously haven’t learned by your lineup above it doesn’t do you any favors, talking down or condescending to somebody especially when you have no idea who they are
I am not condescending. I am dismissive.
It’s a free world in America. Especially now.
Personally, I've been free for my entire long life -- apart from the years in the Army, half a century ago. We've heard " 'Tis an ill wind that blows no good". I don't see any good coming from the 47th president.
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You must be one of those well off top 5%.
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Rick - The benefits you name are short-term fixes. They seem to work for a while but ultimately make things worse.
Please don't feed the troll.
You're seriously right, Miselle.
Good luck.